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/ɹɪˈtɹiːt/ · noun
The act of pulling back or withdrawing, as from something dangerous, or unpleasant..
In a retreat he outruns any lackey.
a mountain retreat
"[…] But come, Lady, we are too near the mouth of the cavern; let us seek its inmost recesses. […]" "Though all your actions are noble, […] is it fitting that I should accompany you alone into these perplexed retreats? Should we be found together, what would a censorious world think of my conduct?"
[…] he built his son a house of pleasure, on purpose to keep him out of harm's way; and spared neither art nor cost to make it a delicious retreat.
That pleasing shade they sought, a soft retreat / From sudden April showers, a shelter from the heat.
In a large bedroom upstairs, the window of which was thickly curtained with a great woollen shawl lately discarded by the landlady, Mrs. Rolliver, were gathered on this evening nearly a dozen persons, all seeking vinous bliss; all old inhabitants of the nearer end of Marlott, and frequenters of this retreat.
When Herbert Kochta first thought about designing a five-star alpine hotel just outside the Bavarian town of Berchtesgaden, a mere 300 yards from the ruins of the Berghof, Adolf Hitler's mountain retreat, the veteran Munich architect knew he could conceptualize a hotel on a hill in either of two ways.
We both need a week retreat after those two stressful years working in the city.
Use retreat when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Retreat means The act of pulling back or withdrawing, as from something dangerous, or unpleasant..
Common synonyms include back away, back down, balk, beat a retreat.
Possible antonyms include advance, charge, gain ground, forge ahead.
In a retreat he outruns any lackey.
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